Clothes hanger with multiple clothes supports

Abstract

A clothes hanger with multiple clothes supports is formed of a pair of U-shaped members each having a bight portion and two leg portions. The leg portions form the upper and lower clothes supports extending laterally from the bight portion with other struts fixed to the bight portion between the leg portions and forming the remaining clothes supports. The leg portions and the struts are all located in a single plane. A hook is secured to the end of a support rod which is hingedly connected to the bight portions of the two U-shaped members. The U-shaped members can be pivoted relative to the support rod, held in the vertical position, so that the bight portions can be positioned vertically or horizontally.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. Clothes hanger with multiple clothes supports comprising a dependent support rod having a first and second end, a hook formed in the first end of said dependent support rod and spaced from the second end thereof, a pair of U-shaped members each located on an opposite side of said dependent support rod, each U-shaped member being formed of bending-resistant material and having a bight portion and two laterally spaced leg portions, each leg portion having a first end and a second end with the first end of each said leg portion forming a junction with said bight portion and the second end of each said leg portion being spaced outwardly from said bight portion, said bight portion comprising a support rod and said leg portions comprising an upper and lower strut, at least one additional rectilinear strut secured to said bight portion between said leg portions and extending outwardly therefrom, said struts forming the multiple supports for the clothes hanger, said struts formed of a bending-resistant material and secured to and extending horizontally from said support rod when said support rod is arranged vertically, said struts being spaced apart along said support rod and being located in a plane including said hook, means for hingedly connecting the second end of said dependent support rod to said bight portion of each of said U-shaped members at a location spaced from said leg portions extending from said bight portion for pivotally displacing said U-shaped members about an axis extending transversely of said dependent support rod and of said bight portions of said U-shaped members so that with said dependent support rod maintained in the vertical position each of said U-shaped members can pivot about the hinge connection between a position where said bight portion is vertical to a position where said bight portion is horizontal. 
     
     
       2. Clothes hanger, as set forth in claim 1, including a rod secured to and extending between said bight portions of each of said U-shaped members, with said rod spaced from the hinge connection of said dependent support rod to said bight portions. 
     
     
       3. Clothes hanger, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said means for hingedly connecting comprises a section of rod secured to and extending transversely of the second end of said dependent support rod, said section of rod having a first end and a second end with said first end located on the opposite side of said dependent support rod from said second end thereof, a pair of first discs one secured to and extending transversely of said first end of said section of rod and the other secured to and extending transversely of said second end of said section of rod, a pair of second discs each having a bore extending centrally therethrough, said first end of said section of rod extending through one of said second discs and said second end of said section of rod extending through the other one of said second discs with said second discs extending radially outwardly from said section of rod, said one of said first discs being positioned between said one of said second discs and one of said bight portions of said pair of U-shaped members and the other said first disc being positioned between said other second disc and the other bight portion of said pair of U-shaped members, said second discs each being secured to said bight portion on an opposite side thereof from said struts secured thereto and a portion of said second discs being spaced from said bight portion so that a slight amount of play is provided for said first discs located therebetween.